“The child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth” UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Spanish Government to end eugenic abortion

LifeSiteNews.com July 25threported the announcement by Spain’s justice minister,
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, that upcoming legislation reform of the country’s laws
governing abortions will eliminate fetal deformity as a basis for killing the
unborn.

The
article continues;

The
legislation, which would eliminate abortion-on-demand during the first fourteen
weeks of pregnancy as established by the previous administration, would return
to a “law of conditions,” under which abortion would not be penalized in
certain specified cases, Ruiz-Gallardón told the Spanish publication La Razón.

However,
Spain would not renew the old law in its entirety, said the justice minister,
“because experience shows us that some of these aspects must be revised.” Asked
which ones, he responded: “I anticipate one. I do not understand why the unborn
are unprotected, permitting them to be aborted, because of the fact that they
have some kind of handicap or deformity.”

“It
seems to me to be ethically inconceivable we have lived so long with this
legislation, and I think that the same level of protection that is given to an
unborn child without any type of handicap or deformity should be given to those
that are verified as lacking some of the abilities that other unborn children
have,” added Ruiz-Gallardón.

The
minister, who has been criticized for not acting to fulfill the People’s Party
campaign promise to reform the abortion law, said that he anticipated
introducing a bill on the matter by the end of the year.

According
to statistics published by La Razon, 90% of handicapped or deformed children in
Spain are killed in their mothers’ wombs,
a total of over 16,000 over the last five years.

Spain’s pro-abortion laws which were expanded during the
Zapatero era in government to include access to abortion for girls as young as
16 without any parental knowledge or veto and which also outlawed conscientious objection,
must be reversed as soon as possible.

Whilst
the current proposals are a step in the right direction it would be even better
if Ruiz-Gallardón’ would go further and overturn not only the Zapatero
legislation but would legislate to protect the fundamental right to life of the
unborn, through all stages of pregnancy, from the moment of conception onwards.

Pat Buckley

I was born in Galway, Ireland where I attended first Scoil Fhursa and then St Ignatius (Jesuit) College. My family moved to Cork in 1960 and I spent my last year at the Christian Brothers College in Mc Curtain street Cork (CBC).

I came to Dublin in 1963 where I met and married my wife Philomena. We have lived in Dublin since then and have been blessed with seven children and 17 grandchildren (so far). When I finished school I studied architecture through the professional institutions and I am a retired Member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (MRIAI). I also hold a BSc. in psychology and political philosophy.

I currently lobby pro-life and pro-family issues at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and occasionally at the European Parliament and Council of Europe. I am a member of the pro-life, pro-family coalition operating within the international institutions and I am a consultant to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children SPUC on UN and related matters.

Between 1978-85, as a married couple Philomena and I were involved in the presentation of Marriage Encounter Weekends and pre-marriage courses. We also represented Worldwide Marriage Encounter on a committee for the family in the Dublin Archdiocese. Between 1985-1988. I was appointed National Secretary and then President of the Catholic Secondary Schools Parents Association (CSPA). I have been lobbying pro-life issue at the UN for upwards of 12 years.

I am a past President of the National Association of Catholic Families (NACF)

Publications:

1997: Anthology of pro-life verse

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